Good morning and welcome to everyone who’s just arrived from Normblog! Do come right in, and make yourself at home. There are still seats up here near the front, and also over there by the poets. (We apologize for the peanut shells some of the Beat poets left on the floor over there.)

What’s that? Oh, our tagline? It’s from the opening of The Scalp Hunters: A Romance of Northern Mexico, by Captain Mayne Reid, published in 1860, and one of the young Teddy Roosevelt’s favourite books:

Unroll the world’s map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, away beyond many a far meridian, let your eyes wander. Rest them where golden rivers rise among peaks that carry the eternal snow. Rest them there.

So, browse around, stay as long as you wish, and do visit with us again when you have a free mo’.